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Human Rights Watch Film Festival, starts this week

FILMMAKERS, SPECIAL GUESTS & PANELISTS in London to attend the Human Rights Watch Film Festival starting this Wednesday 21 March

Throughout the 16th edition of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival which opens this week on Wednesday 21 March filmmakers, film subjects, special guests and panellists will attend post screening discussions and are available for interview. Below are detailed the guests attending and the dates they are available. Full festival press release attached. If you would like to request an interview please get in touch with the HRWFF press office at: 020 7232 2812 or email sarah@sarahharvey.info / liz@sarahharvey.info

Jon Shenkâ€TMs The Island President tells the story of former President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, who must grapple with the daunting prospect of his country fighting for physical survival and his citizens becoming â€˜environmental refugeesâ€TM.

Director Jon Shenk cannot attend the festival but is available for interview by phone.

Following the screening there will be a panel discussion with: Mark Lynas, Climate Advisor to Former President Nasheed; and Ahmed Shafeeq Moosa, Envoy for Science and Technology, The Presidentâ€TMs Office. Discussion moderated by Damian Carrington.

In a Ukrainian village, the formidable Olga Nenya single-handedly raises 23 foster children. Sixteen are mixed-race offspring of visiting African students and Ukrainian women, who often see no choice but to abandon their babies.

Filmmaker Julia Ivanova will attend the screenings and is available for interview between 21 March and 24 March.

Based on events of the Bolivian Water War of April 2000, Even the Rain recounts a story that parallels the history of Christopher Columbus, with sticks and stones confronting the weaponry of a modern army. Only this time the fight is not over gold, but the simplest of elements â€" water.

Screenwriter Paul Laverty will be attending the screenings and is available for interview between 23 March and 25 March.

Through gripping testimony of those who experienced the raid on the Diaz school at the 2001 Genoa G8 Summit, Black Block provides a case study of police violence and arbitrary detention that could happen anywhere.

Filmmaker Carlo Augusto Bachschmidt, and subject Daniel McQuillan (UK based) will be attending the screenings. Daniel is UK based and available for interview. Carlo is available for interview between 24 March and 26 March.

Through New Zealander Rob Hamillâ€TMs story of his brotherâ€TMs death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Brother Number One explores how the regime and its followers killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979.

Filmmaker Annie Goldson and film subject Rob Hamill will be attending the screenings and are available for interview.

â€œWe have a right to loveâ€¦ We have a right to be happy even if people around us go hungry and are dying. To lose these things would be to completely give in to the occupation.â€ â€" Layla, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine Territories.

Filmmaker Susan Youssef will attend the screening on Sunday 25 March and is available for interview between 23 March and 25 March

Beautifully shot and interweaving interviews with scenes from soy fields in Paraguay, Raising Resistance explores Latin American farmersâ€TM struggle against the expanding production of genetically modified soy in South America.

Filmmaker Bettina Borgfeld will attend the screenings and is available for interview between March 27 and March 29.

In Pakistan, a womanâ€TMs face is deemed to be her greatest asset. Someone seeking to punish a woman need only destroy her face to do her permanent harm â€" both physically and socially.

Both screenings will be followed by a discussion with Obaid Chinoy, Daniel Junge and Dr. Mohammad Jawad, moderated by Liesl Gerntholtz, womenâ€TMs rights director at Human Rights Watch and introduced by Katie Piper, founder of the Katie Piper Foundation.

Filmmakers Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge will attend the screenings and are available for interview between 28 March and 29 March. Dr. Mohammad Jawad is UK based and available for interview.

Werner Herzogâ€TMs latest stunning documentary focuses on the bleak yet fascinating subject of capital punishment, following the moving story of Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, two young men found guilty of three capital murders in Texas.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog will attend the screening on Wednesday 28 March. Interview requests will be passed to Revolver Entertainment who release Into The Abyss on 30 March.

Set against the backdrop of a war-torn country, Where Do We Go Now? tells the heart-warming tale of a group of women determined to protect their isolated, mine-encircled, community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces that threaten to destroy it from within.

Filmmaker Nadine Labaki will attend the screening interviewed by journalist Charlotte O'Sullivan. Nadine is available for interview on 30 March.